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Joel Agee • 15 Items / 1 Book, 10 Articles, 4 Reviews
Twelve Years (1981)
by Joel Agee
An American Boyhood in East Germany
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Published Reviews
  1. [+]
    Books in Brief (Review)
    Joe Mysak
    Twelve Years, by Joel Agee
    1. Twelve Years by Joel Agee
    National Review, November 27, 1981, pp. 1435-1437
  2. [+]
    Growing Up East German (Review)
    Robert Coles
    Twelve Years, by Joel Agee
    1. Twelve Years by Joel Agee
    The New York Review of Books, July 16, 1981, p. 49
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    Nonfiction Briefs (Review)
    Alan Cheuse
    Twelve Years, by Joel Agee
    1. Twelve Years by Joel Agee
    The Saturday Review, May 1981, p. 74
  4. [+]
    Boring Adolescence of Untalented Writers (2 Reviews)
    Richard Vigilante
    Twelve Years, by Joel Agee
    1. Twelve Years by Joel Agee
    2. America Lost and Found by Anthony Bailey
    Chronicles, March 1982, pp. 16-19
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    Briefly Noted (5 Reviews)
    General
    1. Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great by Isabel de Madariaga
    2. The Jesuits: A History by David J. Mitchell
    3. Twelve Years by Joel Agee
    4. Miss Willmott of Warley Place by Audrey Le Lievre
    5. The Terror Network by Claire Sterling
    The New Yorker, May 11, 1981, pp. 153-158
  6. [+]
    Short Reviews (9 Reviews)
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
    Loitering with Intent, by Muriel Spark
    1. Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
    2. XPD by Len Deighton
    3. Railways of the Raj by Michael Satow and Ray Desmond
    4. Edith Sitwell by Victoria Glendinning
    5. Twelve Years by Joel Agee
    6. Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered by John Conrad
    7. The Comet Is Coming! by Nigel Calder
    8. The Meeting at Telgte by Gunter Grass
    9. Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery by Karen Hess
    The Atlantic Monthly, June 1981, pp. 100-105
  7. [+]
    The Best Books for Summer Reading (9 Reviews)
    Nonfiction
    1. Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman
    2. The Terror Network by Claire Sterling
    3. High School by David Owen
    4. Twelve Years by Joel Agee
    5. Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961 by Carlos Baker and Ernest Hemingway
    6. Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro by A.J. Langguth
    7. Duchess: The Story of Wallis Warfield Windsor by Stephen Birmingham
    8. Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
    9. Miss Piggy's Guide to Life by Henry Beard
    The Saturday Review, July 1981, pp. 79-81